Barbara Marx Hubbard Addresses American Nuns | Sister Simone's NETWORK Confronts Romney & Ryan

Anne is reading …

1. Barbara Marx Hubbard was the featured speaker at this week’s Missouri meeting of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. 

The main focus of the meeting was drafting a response to the Vatican’s claims that American nuns are “radical feminists” out of step with the church’s teaching. Of course, the members of LCWR don’t see themselves in this light.

The response to Rome’s doctrinal assessment is more eastern, writes Thomas C Fox for The National Catholic Reporter. 

The statement simply absorbs the misunderstanding, pain, violence and abuse the women who gathered here find within the doctrinal assessment. Not unlike a Japanese Jujutsu move that manipulates an opponent’s force rather than confronting it with one’s own, the statement asked Archbishop J. Peter Sartain, the apostolic delegate appointed by CDF to oversee LCWR, to move forward with the women in more conversation.

2. American nuns have responded to the congregation for the Doctrine of Faith with a vision of Christianity in the future. Sister Pat Farrell’s address also captures a 21st century vision of women las leaders in creating a sustainable planet.

3. On the subject of Paul Ryan’s budget and Romney’s pick of him as a running mate, Nuns on the Bus, and the voice of American Nuns just got a big boost. It is the American nuns — far more than American bishops and priests as a group — who have challenged Ryan and the Ryan budget. I listened to Sister Simone Campbell here in Philadelphia a few weeks ago in a Nuns on the Bus stop.

4. Earlier this week, Sister simone’s social justice lobby NETWORK openly invited Republican candidate MItt Romney to spend a day with them, learning about the needs of struggling families and low-income communities. Read the press release.